Professor in Occupational & Organisational Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle Professor Anthony Montgomery, PhD, is a Full Professor of Occupational & Organisational Psychology at Northumbria University, UK. He is a recognized scholar in the areas of job burnout, quality of care and patient safety. He lectures extensively internationally and he has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers, edited two books and numerous book chapters. He has been an organisational consultant to a range of national and international public and private sector organisations in the maritime, retail, information technology and healthcare sectors.
Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow Gerard Carruthers was lecturer in the Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde (1995- 2000), where he taught American, English and Scottish literatures. Previously he was Research Fellow at the Centre for Walter Scott Studies, University of Aberdeen (1993-5). Gerard Carruthers is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and of St Andrew's College of Education, Glasgow. His PhD thesis was on 'The Invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century'. His research interests include Scottish literature from 1690 to the 20th century, particularly Robert Burns, Muriel Spark, James Bridie, Alexander Geddes and Walter Scott
Associate Professor of English & Women's and Gender Studies, Drake University A Southern California native, I earned my undergraduate degree in English from Humboldt State University in Northern California. I then moved to the deep south where I completed my Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. My research interests focus on popular culture, young adult literature, feminist theory, and women's studies. I have an ongoing obsession with horror films, which began when my brother forced me (at age 12) to watch George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Along with my love of zombies and powerful women in horror films, I am continually intrigued by the amorphous classification(s) of cultural productions as either "high" or "low" forms of art. Is it "literature" or "fiction" or a "trashy novel?" Interrogation of these troublesome labels is an ongoing preoccupation.
Associate researcher, University of Antwerp I am Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the Catholic University of Congo and an Associate Researcher at the University of Antwerp. My research focuses on urban governance, police sector reform and informal economy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. My research can be accessed here: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/desktop/irua
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in history, University of Bonn Viola Franziska Müller is a historian at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at University of Bonn. She is the author of Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022) and co-editor of Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art (London: UCL Press, 2023). Her research interests include global history, slavery, labor coercion, inequality, illegality, im/mobility, race, resistance, and urban history.
Acting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University I an an Acting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. I received my PhD at the University of Washington in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2022. I was advised by Professor Joshua Smith and a member of the Sensor Systems Lab. My research is focused around wireless technology such as battery-free sensing, low-cost low-power communication and IoT systems. I am very passionate about using technology to help solve the many environmental issues we face as a world today. My first step towards this was in 2015 when I joined Microsoft’s FarmBeats team to work on developing an end-to-end IoT system to enable data-driven agriculture solutions, which is used by farmers worldwide and an ongoing effort.
